Sounder of hogs digging along levee bank in Dallas, Texas 11/28/10. They have done a great amount of damage to the levee, bank and streams with their constant digging causing erosion and destruction on a wide scale.
What you cannot see in the video is the backside of the embankment where they have dug out large hog wallows the size of pickup trucks. If you are familiar with this area, some of the worst spots are where the concrete spillways are located at different points along the lake. Where the concrete ends, the pig damage starts.
These were barrow ditches (conveyance basins in City speak terms) excavated by the city as part of the McCommas landfill expansion. I know well where these are now that you identified the area. You are right the feral hogs are a problem all the estimated population of 3,000 of them up and down the Trinity river. thanks for the video.
The oxbow levee that you see in the video was built in 2003-2005 by the city of Dallas as a buffer between the Trinity River and the McCommas Bluff Landfill. If you look at google maps, find the east side of the McCommas Bluff Landfill. You will see a large kidney shaped oxbow lake. The pigs were rooting the levee that keeps the lake and the river apart. They have done quite a bit of damage around the levee system there.
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What you cannot see in the video is the backside of the embankment where they have dug out large hog wallows the size of pickup trucks. If you are familiar with this area, some of the worst spots are where the concrete spillways are located at different points along the lake. Where the concrete ends, the pig damage starts.
refidnasb1 1 year ago
These were barrow ditches (conveyance basins in City speak terms) excavated by the city as part of the McCommas landfill expansion. I know well where these are now that you identified the area. You are right the feral hogs are a problem all the estimated population of 3,000 of them up and down the Trinity river. thanks for the video.
hspicata 1 year ago
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The oxbow levee that you see in the video was built in 2003-2005 by the city of Dallas as a buffer between the Trinity River and the McCommas Bluff Landfill. If you look at google maps, find the east side of the McCommas Bluff Landfill. You will see a large kidney shaped oxbow lake. The pigs were rooting the levee that keeps the lake and the river apart. They have done quite a bit of damage around the levee system there.
refidnasb1 1 year ago
Doesn't look like an oxbow "levee" to me? Where was this? Thanks for putting a date on the video.
hspicata 1 year ago